Typography and Design (Two Free Ebooks)

Get­ting Real is the undis­puted bible of agile soft­ware developmentâ€”a mani­festo that can change your view in a single read­ing. How­ever when it comes to typo­graphy and design, the closest I have ever come to such a doc­u­ment was Mark Boulton’s Bet­ter Typo­graphy present­a­tion. Now there’s a con­tender:

I can’t do this tome justice. Split into two partsâ€”The Intan­gibles (semantics, syn­tactics, etc.) and The Tan­gibles (paper sizes, grids, type sizes, etc.)â€”Massimo Vignelli’s book cov­ers everything you could want to know about typo­graphy in graph­ic design.